Gregory Guy (NYU) & Aria Adli (University of Cologne): Introduction
All students: Short field reports
Johannes Müller (University of Cologne): A few words of welcome of the International Office
Shobha Satyanath & Ranjan Kumar (University of Delhi): Caste and social differentiation of speech
Komlan E. Essizewa (Université de Lomé): Sociolinguistic profile of Togo
15:45
09:45 AM
Student paper Miranda Lalinde (Cologne): Language attitude change of the Embera Chami community in Corea Alta in Antioquia, Colombia
Gregory Guy & Aria Adli: Variable subject pronouns in Persian and Portuguese: the role of age, gender, and politeness
Comments by Yahya Modarresi (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran)
Discussion with Ernesto Cuba (The Graduate Center (CUNY) on transgender speakers of Peruvian Spanish
16:30
10:30 AM
Discussion with Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez (NYU)
Discussion with James Stanford (Darmouth College)
Student papers on field projects around the world
Selikem Gotah (NYU): Variation in Relativization in Hogbe-Ewe
17:15
11:15 AM
Student papers on field projects around the world
Laura Günther (Cologne): Language attitude in Quechua speaking communities around Sucre, Bolivia, over 3 generations
Student papers on field projects around the world
Abed Qaddoumi (NYU): Arabic Variation of Qar in Jordan
Sina Voss (Cologne): The role of Amharic and the other four official languages in Ethiopia: Oromo, Somali, Afar and Tigrinya
18:00
12:00 PM
Lunch or dinner potluck in gather.town
19:00
01:00 PM
Student papers on field projects around the world
Amalia Canes-Nápoles (Cologne): Sociolinguistic Variation of Spoken Cuban Spanish
Franziska Sprenger & Lea Bachmann (Cologne): German native speaker's knowledge of prominent heritage languages
Alessia Cassarà (Cologne): Sicilian: Language attitude and maintenance in nowadays Sicily
All students: Main issues of the day
Student papers on field projects around the world
Vahid Mortezapour (Cologne): Competing networks: Tracing the roots of language maintenance and shift in personal social networks
Zahra Farokhnejad (Tehran/Cologne): Variations in Kurdish Ilam
Begum Saridede (NYU): Language Use and Attitude of Crimean Tatars in Turkey
All students: Main issues of the day
Student papers on field projects around the world
Eric Engel (Cologne): Variation and style in the speech of the elderly: Insights from (dis-)fluency
Kimberly Baxter (NYU): Syntactic Variation in African American English: The Case of Perfective done
Plenary discussion: Further steps of the student research projects and the cross-cultural agenda
21:30
03:30 PM
End of workshop day
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